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Style

Elective, Spring 2019
Mari Hvattum

‘Style’ has long been a reviled concept in modern architecture. From Mies van der Rohe equating style with formalism, to Rem Koolhaas parroting Le Corbusier’s ‘The “styles” are a lie’ in his S,M,L,XL glossary, style has been viewed with suspicion by architects and historians for most of the twentieth century. The scepticism persists. Apart from a brief […]

Urban Preservation – Vestli

Elective, Spring 2019
Even Smith Wergeland and Tom Davies

2019’s Urban Preservation (UP) picks up the current buzz on late Brutalist Low Rise High Density and terraced housing projects looking at Oslo’s own Vestli; built by Selvaag Bygg (1968-78). Combining heritage preservation and working with community provides a basis for potential solutions to changes identified through workshops at Vestli carried out in 2018. These […]

Fehn, Venezia 2020

Elective, Spring 2019
Erik Langdalen and Mari Lending

Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion in Venice (1962) is a modern masterpiece in concrete, and widely acknowledged as the most striking architectural structure in Giardini, the Biennale park. Sixty years after its inauguration, the concrete is crumbling. Restoration work is underway, providing a unique opportunity to investigate the history of the pavilion. This research-based OCCAS seminar […]

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